These are
about how things were back in 1980-1, mainly under Gary Jost,
I wrote them down in about 1984 because it struck me about
how things had changed later, mainly for the better.

Bathtub
salad bar where "The Sperm that's going to attack Henry's
Jean Scene" is Real painted menu Outside and front of
inside wood painted yellow with brown trim Outside sign
said Grand Junction (green letters on orange)
Theatre/salad bar were upperdeck and un-bussable Had 32
oz. tea glasses (both here and to go) No liquor Safe
worked, later didn't Guest checks had bigger receipts to
give numbers to customer Tax was 5% (easy to figure in
head) Pizza priced by type of ingredient Sliced
our own Pep (marks on maroon counter near slicer) Cooked
own Burg and Saus (on burners in spag sauce pots?), placed
in huge white rectangular bins to cool (these had to be
cleaned out with straight liquid Ajax) Both docking sides
used, both pizza maker sides used Shelves always
completely docked up Kids couldn't go back to dining room
without adult Delivery area was undefined and always 75
cents (25 cents of which went to store beca! use they were
using their cars/trucks--this was continued for a while even
when deliverers used their own cars, until they asked
why)---later, I believe the price went up to $1.00 and $1.50
for the extension into Canyon Creek and maybe for some areas
past Spring Valley and Preston (apts). Microwave was on top
of sub station where burners are (burners were in the back
kitchen) Salad to go was served in 16 oz. styro cups,
dressing in 2 oz. cups Chef salad was kept in sub
reach in One person was assigned the sub station, one at
cut/serve, one at drinks, one at register, one at docker,
one at pizza maker and one bus/dishwasher all night
We cut our own GP, BO, GO, JAL Buttermilk used for all
dressings and instead of ranch, french and italian for
creamy italian dressing Serve-a-lot (cervelot on menu) and
processed swiss cheese on subs (what later?) Liquid Ajax
used instead of General Purpose Cleaner Cleaned inside of
oven (nightly or weekly) with bl! each Mark Ferguson (Fergie)
was GJ's version of Fonzie Sub knife w/ wodden handle kept
between tables of substation (until health dept. discovered
it) Used to use drink glasses to scoop their own ice for
drinks (health dept. enforced using the metal ice scoop)
Used faucet under sink to fill throw bucket (until hand
piece rounded off valve until it was unusable except using
Vice Grips) There was no separate faucet inside spray
sink Dough was mashed down at night No Dave's desk,
stored everything there Night crew swept dining room and
vacuumed theatre and folded boxes Men's bathroom actually
had door on toilet Fire exit actually had bar on it for
opening All tables in dining room were different kinds (no
two exactly the same) and all of the chairs were wooden and
different kinds No pickle spears with subs We had
lasagna No cheese bread or French Bread Pizza We took
the dishwasher mat regularly to the car wash We used to
make 1/2 batches of dough 3 scales: 25lb (warm water for
dough), 50lb (flour for dough), and 2 ! lb (spices for pizza
and spag sauces and for weighing cheese slice thickness and
dough thickness) The 12" was originally known as the
"Giant" before Dave added the 14" Giant No pay phone,
customers used front phone free (as long as it wasn't long
distance) There was a big wooden chandelier resting
against the storeroom wall that was possibly used in the
private dining area that the store room took the place of
The original store stereo hooked to the PA system had vacuum
tubes Rather than the hand crank can opener, we had a
heavy duty industrial electric can opener There were 2
pizza paddles, one for each oven/one for each pizza maker
No sneeze guard on salad bar Rather than the 50lb.sacks
used later flour came in 100lb.sacks (real fun to get on
your shoulder There were 8 oz. styro coffee to go cups
where the Lance crackers were kept by the register There
were plastic coffee mugs (each employee had a personalized
one to keep in back for cokes) The GJ ! uniform shirt was
an off-orange izod-style with GJ logo over heart Time
clock was different make We had 5-8 shifts rather than 6-9
shifts Outside movie room was painted a puke-blue as was
parts of the ceiling Floor in front of store was all wood
parquet that had to be waxed, and occasionally resurfaced
There wasn't a plant in the whole place The "Everything"
pizza was called "The Grand One" and had everything
except CB The original slogan was "Where the West
meets the Eats" (was on the original hand-painted menu along
with our mascot [see the Pearce Annual ad for this], later
changed to "The Way You Like It" We had glass ashtrays on
each table rather than the black, plastic ones Floor
drains were collected each night and stored in small
tupperware tub filled with diluted bleach GJ was
originally Fargo's (as in Wells Fargo)---inside the "Jail"
there was a picture alluding to this, that's why so many of
the decorations resembled a train or stagecoach station No
door buzzer There was a weekly Sunday football game !
The "roof" that was built around the front pizza prep area
was corrugated tin and we windexed it There was an
additional microphone by the register for to go orders, it's
outlet was still there under the phone We had no ceiling
fans There was a sign on the theatre that said "Movies
5-9 nightly" There was originally no order-holder on the
pizza shelves, you just laid the order on top of the top
shelf and said "Order Up"